In a vertigo of silence
Subtitle: a novel
By: Miriam Polli
Edition: First Serving House books edition.
Publisher: Serving House Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Florham Park, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780991328161
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Immigrants; Fiction; Alcoholism; Mental illness
Description: The family is a matriarchy with Marishka at its head. A strong and eminently likable Polish woman, she came to the United States via Ellis Island with her husband, Antoni. They settle in Pennsylvania where he found work in a coal mine. Tragically, like so many other miners in the early 1920s, he perished in the mine. This is when Marishka was only days away from giving birth to her third daughter ... Marishka's tenacity is evident in how she went on to become a talented seamstress, laundress and sometimes house cleaner to make ends meet.